> So the only way to make flex run on the new VM is to rewrite the SDK code, > and with no easy way to do so?
Yes, I think so, but you'd have to rewrite it even if the new VM ran AS3 because the new VM doesn't have DisplayObject or Event! > Do you know if the next AIR runtime will only work for AS4? Sorry, I don't know the plans for AIR. - Gordon -----Original Message----- From: sébastien Paturel [mailto:sebpatu.f...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, October 19, 2012 3:02 PM To: flex-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: To AS4 or not So the only way to make flex run on the new VM is to rewrite the SDK code, and with no easy way to do so? Do you know if the next AIR runtime will only work for AS4? Le 19/10/2012 23:53, Gordon Smith a écrit : > I think this would be difficult as the new VM is not designed to run AS3. > > - Gordon > > -----Original Message----- > From: sébastien Paturel [mailto:sebpatu.f...@gmail.com] > Sent: Friday, October 19, 2012 2:50 PM > To: flex-dev@incubator.apache.org > Subject: Re: To AS4 or not > > and using Falcon to compile AS3 to generate new VM bytecode? > is it more realistic to achieve? > > Le 19/10/2012 20:54, Gordon Smith a écrit : >>> Gordon, Adobe AS4 compiler won't be open sourced but would it be possible >>> to adapt Falcon to target the new VM? >> Yes, it would be possible. Falcon/ASC 2.0 was the starting point for Adobe's >> development of an AS4 compiler. But it's been many developer-years of work >> for us and it isn't trivial. ActionScript is more complex than MXML. >> >> - Gordon >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: João Fernandes [mailto:joaopedromartinsfernan...@gmail.com] >> Sent: Friday, October 19, 2012 10:53 AM >> To: flex-dev@incubator.apache.org >> Subject: Re: To AS4 or not (was: Re: ASC 2.0 and Falcon) >> >> Alex, couldn't we simply use AS4 and have multiple target platforms ? >> >> Gordon, Adobe AS4 compiler won't be open sourced but would it be possible to >> adapt Falcon to target the new VM?
